Roxey Ann Caplin, Health and beauty — Appendix C (1864)
“ Madame Caplin desires to withdraw the clothing of the female form from the arbitrary empiricism of the modiste, and to reduce it to scientific rules. Like Carlyle she writes the philosophy of clothes, but in quite another spirit. She contemplates the human race, at least that part living in civilized society, as beings made to be clothed, and she examines their wants from birth to the last stage of life. ”
Roxey Ann Caplin, Health and beauty — Appendix C (1864)
“ Madame Caplin is not a mere theorist. She has long had to deal with ladies in the way of Corsets, and, like a sensible woman, deeply impressed with an important truth, she has laboured hard, and not without success, to reform the pernicious custom which produces absolute deformity and ill-health in an unnecessary process for obtaining beauty of figure. Madame Caplin begins at the beginning, however, with the dress adapted for infancy ”
Roxey Ann Caplin, Health and beauty — Appendix C (1864)
“ To assist nature to develope beauty of form, and to correct, perhaps to conceal, defects, is the task proposed to herself by Madame Caplin."—Weekly Times, Oct. 5th, 1856. "Of its kind, the work before us is one of the most perfect that has hitherto been published, that is, as a practical work; but it does not profess even to discuss the whole question of clothing. The chapter on the relation of dress to the human figure might have been enlarged into the dimensions of the whole volume, without exhausting the subject. ”
